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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945

J. R. McNeill

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The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age--the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2016
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9780674545038
  • Categories: • World - General• Environmental Conservation & Protection - General• Public Policy - Environmental Policy

About the Author

McNeill, J. R.: - J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Engelke, Peter: - Peter Engelke is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC.

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Among the first scholarly works to make explicit use of the geological framework of the Anthropocene for the purpose of rethinking the grand narratives of global economic change.
-- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books

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